Suella Braverman said Parliament 'must be ready to sit at Christmas'; to achieve the adoption of a law on illegal migration. Photo: ROGER HARRIS/AFP
Suella Braverman has warned that the Conservatives face “selective oblivion within months” if they pass Rwanda's emergency legislation, which is “doomed to fail”.
Former home secretary issued a warning in a personal statement to the House of Commons that focused on what she called “massive, uncontrolled, illegal immigration” involving thousands of “mostly young people, many of whom have values and social mores that are contrary to ours own.” “.
Read her statement in full below.
Mr. Speaker, I appreciate your permission to make this statement.
It has been a great honor to serve in the Cabinet for just under four years. I am grateful for the opportunity and grateful for the efforts of the many government officials with whom I have worked.
We have achieved a lot in the last 12 months, with landmark legislation in the Public Order and National Security Act. Act; 20,000 new police officers – more than ever before in England and Wales; one of the largest ever police pay increases; greater powers to fire fraudsters; and a review of legal protections to strengthen support for our brave firearms officers.
But Mr. Speaker, I want to talk about a crisis that I have spent more time in office addressing than any other: massive, out of control, illegal migration.
We are all familiar with this problem.
Tens of thousands of mostly young people, many of whom have values and social mores that contradict our own, are pouring into our country day after day, month after month, year after year.
Many come from safe countries. Many of them are not real refugees, but economic migrants. Everyone pays thousands of pounds to a criminal gang to get into Britain.
And they all leave the safe country: France, which, let's face it, should be doing much more to stop them.
And they are all leaving a safe country: France, which, let's face it, should be doing much more to stop them.
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This puts unsustainable pressure on public finances and public services, undermines social cohesion and jeopardizes national and public security.
The British people understand all this, Mr. Speaker. The question is, is their government doing it? And will he finally be able to stop it?
The Prime Minister has rightly committed himself to doing everything possible to stop the boats.
He should be commended for devoting more time and labor to the cause than any of his predecessors. And unlike the Leader of the Opposition, who would rather bury his head in the sand, he actually put forward a plan.
We have made some progress during my time as Home Secretary.
The total number of crossings was reduced by 30 percent. The number of illegal Albanian arrivals has dropped by 90 percent. And we began to close hotels providing asylum.
But, Mr. Speaker, “crossings don’t work” is not the same as “stopping boats.”
As Minister of the Interior I have consistently advocated for legislative measures that would ensure the implementation of our partnership with Rwanda once the bill becomes law.
Last summer, after losing the Court of Appeal, I advised that we should withdraw rather than proceed with the bill. Bill on illegal immigration in favor of a more reliable alternative that excludes international and human rights laws.
When this proposal was rejected, I said that we need to develop a reliable Plan B if the Supreme Court loses.
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After defeat in the Supreme Court, the Prime Minister agreed to introduce emergency legislation. I welcomed his decision.
Three weeks have passed and the bill has not been presented. We're running out of time. We need the bill now.
But, Mr. Speaker, I am most concerned about the substance of what this bill might contain.
Previous attempts have failed because they have failed to address the root cause of the problem: sweeping human rights laws arising from The European Convention on Human Rights, and reproduced in Labour's Human Rights Act, have been interpreted flexibly by courts both at home and abroad to literally prevent our Rwanda plan from being implemented.
And this problem concerns much more than just illegal migration. During my time as Home Secretary, I can say that the same human rights system produces madness that the public is unlikely to believe.
We cannot deport foreign terrorists because of their human rights. Terrorists we must let back in because of their human rights. Foreign rapists and pedophiles who should be removed are released back into our communities where they commit more crimes. Yes, because of their human rights.
Violent criminals carried out deportation flights – with the help of Labor MPs, I might add – and were free to roam our streets and commit further heinous crimes, including murder. Protesters are off the hook for tearing down statues and gluing themselves to roads. And our brave military veterans are being persecuted by the courts approximately 40 years after their service.
It is no secret that I support leaving the ECHR and replacing the Human Rights Act with the British Bill of Rights, which protects the vulnerable and our national security and will complete the job of Brexit by getting us out of foreign court and restoring true parliamentary sovereignty.
< p>But I agree that the government will not agree to this and that this is a discussion for another day.
What is especially important when it comes to stopping the boats now is that leaving the ECHR is not the only way to cut off Gordieva Knot.
Emergency legislation would allow this if it meets the following criteria.
First, the bill must address the Supreme Court's concerns about Rwanda's security.
>Secondly, the bill should allow flights until the next election, blocking all avenues of contestation. The powers of detention and removal must be exercised independently of the Human Rights Act, the European Convention on Human Rights, the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and all other rules of international law.
Thirdly, the Bill must address the shortcomings of the NRM to ensure so that evictions can take place within a few days of people arriving illegally, rather than allowing individual proceedings that can drag on for months.
Fourth, the bill should allow administrative detention of illegal immigrants until they are removed. And just as we quickly built Nightingale hospitals to combat Covid, we must also build Nightingale-style detention facilities to provide the necessary capacity. Greece and Türkiye did the same. The only way to do this, as I argued in government, is with the support of the Ministry of Defence.
And fifthly, Parliament must be ready to sit at Christmas to get this bill passed.
p>It all comes down to a simple question: who runs Britain? Where is the highest authority in Great Britain? With the British people and their elected representatives in Parliament? Or it could be the vague, shifting and inexplicable concept of “international law.”
On Monday, the Prime Minister announced measures that are beginning to better reflect public dissatisfaction with legal migration. Now he can follow up with this bill, which reflects public anger over illegal migration and effectively fulfills his promise to stop the boats.
It's now or never. The Conservative Party faces electoral oblivion in a matter of months if we introduce another bill that is destined to fail. Will we fight for sovereignty or let our party die? I refuse to sit back and allow the trust that millions of people have placed in us to be discarded as an inconvenient detail.
If we have the political courage to do what is really needed and fight for the interests of the British people, then I I am confident that we will return their support. And if the Prime Minister leads this fight, he will have my full support.
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